Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern

…Chicago critics is found in Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern (1952), edited by Crane. A full exposition of the theoretical basis of the group’s method is to be found in Crane’s study The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry (1953). Wayne C. Booth, one of the second-generation…

In Critics and Criticism (1952; the Neo-Aristotelian manifesto edited by Crane) and later works, including Tragedy and the Theory of Drama (1961) and The Theory of Comedy (1968), Olson argued for a systematic and comprehensive approach to criticism based on but not limited to the principles…